Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1 Dollar Coin Act (Introduced
in House)
HR 1016 IH
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1016
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign the $1
coin to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2003
Mr. RANGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign the $1
coin to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND FINDINGS.
(a) SHORT TITLE- This Act may be cited as the `Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., 1 Dollar Coin Act'.
(b) FINDINGS- The Congress finds the following:
(1) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preeminent
spokesman for human civil rights in his time.
(2) The work of Dr. King affected the lives of
more Americans of all races and people around the
world than any other American reform leader of
the 20th century.
(3) Dr. King was one of America's most erudite
scholars and social and religious activists.
(4) Dr. King, because of his lifelong
achievements and moral vision, was a recipient in
1964 of the Nobel Peace Prize.
(5) Dr. King mobilized leaders of all faiths,
races, and creeds to support the passage of the
historic civil rights laws in the 1960s.
(6) Dr. King inspired activists for human rights
around the world by applying a philosophy of
non-violence.
(7) Dr. King helped to mobilize the
African-American civil rights movement as a
founder of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
(8) Dr. King has been honored by the Nation with
the designation of the third Monday in January as
a national holiday in his name.
(9) The largest collection of materials relating
to Dr. King is in the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta,
Georgia.
SEC. 2. REDESIGN OF $1 COIN TO COMMEMORATE DR. MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR.
Section 5112(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) by striking the 5th sentence and inserting
the following: `The obverse side of the dollar
shall have the likeness of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. The reverse side of the dollar shall
have a design emblematic of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.'; and
(2) in the 4th sentence, by striking `dollar,
half dollar, and quarter dollar' and inserting
`half dollar and quarter dollar'.